8 Best sociology books like Understanding the Process of Economic Change by Douglass C. North

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Understanding the Process of Economic Change

By: Douglass C. North

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the proc…

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1. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

By: David S. Landes

3.96

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
"As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground."

-David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

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2. Civilization: The West and the Rest

By: Niall Ferguson

3.86

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
"We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers."

-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

"Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."

-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

"No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."

-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

"After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"

-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest

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3. The Constitution of Liberty

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

"One of the great political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart… read more

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  • law
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

By: Joseph A. Schumpeter

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracyremains one of the greatest works of social theory written this … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
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5. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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6. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's … read more

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7. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850

By: Joel Mokyr

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid developme… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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8. The Castle

By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more

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9. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

By: Francis Fukuyama

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in Th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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10. Globalization and Its Discontents

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalizat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
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11. History of Economic Analysis: With a New Introduction

By: Joseph A. Schumpeter , Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter , Mark Perlman

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter--one of the great economists of the first half … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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12. A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

By: Joel Mokyr

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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13. Plagues and Peoples

By: William H. McNeill

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peopleswas an immediate critical and popular success, of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

14. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology

15. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable L… read more

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16. The Gifts of Athena - Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy

By: Joel Mokyr

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

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17. World Order

By: Henry Kissinger

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger offers in World Ordera deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and gl… read more

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18. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

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19. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • law
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

20. Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

By: Ian Morris

3.84

Format: 95 pages, ebook

A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the ast… read more

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21. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

By: Joel Mokyr

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ev… read more

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22. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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23. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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24. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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25. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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26. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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27. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

By: Oded Galor

3.85

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress from one of the world's pre-eminen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • sociology
"У 1579-му міська рада Гданська наказала непомітно втопити винахідника нового верстата для плетіння тасьми, який загрожував традиційним виробникам цієї продукції."

-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

"Дуже часто рекомендації західних держав щодо розвитку політики в бідніших країнах мало відрізняються від «ритуалів відновлення» в жителів острова Танна. Вони передбачають зовнішню імітацію інститутів…"

-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

"У 1958 році американський політолог Едвард Бенфілд сформулював впливову теорію, відповідно до якої низький рівень економічного розвитку в цьому регіоні пов’язаний з міцними родинними зв’язками. За йо…"

-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

"Після Великого повстання проти Римської імперії, яке спалахнуло в Юдеї 66 року н. е., римляни знищили Єрусалим і Єрусалимський храм. Кілька основних течій юдаїзму зникло, зокрема садукеї (священники …"

-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

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28. The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy

By: Stein Ringen

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of dra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. Understanding the Process of Economic Change

By: Douglass C. North

3.87

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the proc… read more

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  • history
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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30. The Theory of Economic Development

By: Joseph A. Schumpeter

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Schumpeter proclaims in this classical analysis of capitalist society first published in 1911 that … read more

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  • economics
  • history

19 Top history books like Understanding the Process of Economic Change by Douglass C. North

Transform Your Habits

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

David S. Landes

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Civilization: The West and the Rest

Niall Ferguson

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Constitution of Liberty

Friedrich A. Hayek

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Joseph A. Schumpeter

4.39

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14 Top fiction books like Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

3.66

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L'Arminuta

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

4.09

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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.84

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Accabadora

Michela Murgia

4.07

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